1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: Yours shut. My name is Roger Gola, and if there's 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about me, it's that 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: I love NASCAR and there's a story I want to 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: tell you about. Don't even think about hitting that thirty 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: second skip button, because even if you're one of the 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: few strange folks that doesn't like racing, you're gonna want 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: to hear this. People will say, Oh, he's crazy, he's 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: conspiracy there, No, it's just reality. My hands are on 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: their faith here in New Hampshire barters back in forty 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: three drivers gathered at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway or 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,639 Speaker 1: a chance at the checkered flag, and all the way 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: in the back, starting in forty second place is a 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: man named Derek White. On the front, Gnaage Okay back 14 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: and the Indian Reserve just outside of Montreal. He doesn't 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: stand a snowball's chance in hell at winning this race, 16 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter because he's making history here. He's 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: the first ever or indigenous person to race in the 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 1: NASCAR Cup Series, and to Derek this was the first 19 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: step in a long career in racing. What he didn't 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: know was that he was about to be arrested in 21 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: Canada's largest ever police operation, called the largest grade of 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: its kind in America. Quebec Provincial police cops have been 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: on his tail for more than a year, watching his 24 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: every move, tapping his phone and following his vehicles. We 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: have holicopters over my host our phones are but they're 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: I was watching them because they believed he was a 27 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: major figure in an international criminal organization made up of 28 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: South American drug cartels, Canadian gangsters, and outlaw bikers. He 29 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: was the frontman, if you will, for the organized crime 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: slash holes Angels organization. Well see, that's one thing that 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: didn't really do their homework very well. I mean I 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: was way on the bottom of the total pole. But 33 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: of course they have to put the native person, uh 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: close to the top, you know. Well, now Darry is 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: fighting his charges in court. His defense relies on his 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: rights as a Native person. And the craziest thing, he 37 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: might actually have a case and it may change the 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: future of Native rights. They know that if this case 39 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: goes in any way our way, they got a whole 40 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: new story to be right, it's not only my fight, 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: it's the whole nation's fight. From Camp Side Media and 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Productions, This is running Smoke, the story of 43 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: how a race car driver accused of smuggling is redefining 44 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: the future of Native rights. All these outsiders want to 45 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: tell us what to do. It ain't. It ain't gonna happen. 46 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,399 Speaker 1: Find us anywhere you get your podcasts.